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Discours et pratiques féministes contemporaines dans et hors des frontières

Genre, Sexualité et Société, 2018
Avtar Brah is Professor Emerita at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her book Cartographies of a Diaspora (1996) has been widely read internationally and opened up new perspectives on ‘difference’ and ‘diversity’, informed by feminism and post ...
Avtar Brah, Clelia Clini
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski, Łukasz Walas, Marzenna Guzicka   +2 more
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Defying Absolutes and Essentialism in Derek Walcott’s Omeros: An Epic of Traces

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2020
Using poststructuralist and postmodern theory, this article analyses the postcolonial epic poem Omeros (1990) by the author Derek Walcott. In using such a genre, Derek Walcott opens up a discussion on the literary canon and the role of epics.
Mónica Fernández Jiménez
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An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

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Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz, Jesús A. Anaya, Nicola Clerici, Lina M. Estupinan‐Suarez, Isabel Lopera, Solveig Richter, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos A. Sierra, Andrés Tangarife‐Escobar, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Montero, Pablo Palacios‐Rodríguez, Pablo Ramos, Santiago Botía   +13 more
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Blue‐Prints for Ocean Governance: Analyzing Resource Sustainability in International Blue Economic Frameworks

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Championed as a pathway for sustainable growth, the “blue economy” (BE) has garnered increasing interest in recent decades. International organizations like the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) increasingly point to marine resources and activities as a “new frontier” for economic growth ...
Flora St. Pier, Anar Ahmadov, Farid Guliyev   +2 more
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(In)justice in Smart Cities: Barriers and an Integrative Framework for Solution Pathways From a Global Perspective

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque, Emilio Costales, Dominik Beckers, Ayyoob Sharifi, Samar Aad, Luca Mora   +5 more
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Postcoloniality as translation in action

Revista do GEL, 2007
The postcolonial condition (or what I shall refer to as "postcoloniality", as distinct from "postcolonialism" which is better reserved, I think, for an intellectual movement with a number of distinguishing traits ultimately traceable to certain specific ...
Kanavillil Rajagopalan
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Les réalités du Sud sont-elles solubles dans la pensée du Nord  ? Enjeux et perspectives

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2020
What postures should be adopted to understand and explain the social realities of the South? How to prevent the perverse effects of the logics historically produced and culturally marked by the thought of the North?
Sid Ahmed Soussi, Youssef SADIK
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Exploratory Analysis of Sustainable Consumption and Production Factors in Services: Insights From Four Case Studies Using Interpretive Structural Modeling

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how 14 sustainable consumption and production (SCP) factors interact across four service categories—Mass Service, Professional Service, Service Factory, and Service Shop—using interpretive structural modeling (ISM). ISM enables the identification and hierarchical classification of interdependencies among SCP factors in ...
Amanda Duarte Feitosa, Fagner José Coutinho de Melo, André Philippi Gonzaga de Albuquerque, Naia Antunis de Rezende, Denise Dumke de Medeiros   +4 more
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The post-pandemic architectural treatment in Taipei: a “postcolonial-urban” complex

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
The relief from the COVID-19 pandemic today is globally phenomenal. However, its architectural representation still suggests dramatic variables caused by different localities.
Francis Chia Hui Lin
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